About Us

Sustainable-Visions, LLC (S-V) offers a blend of expertise embedded in its key partners and collaborating partners.  Unique in its intergenerational perspectives and experiences, the company combines years of experience in the related fields of education, psychology, communication science and therapeutic intervention.  Launched in 2014, S-V is committed to research and development and the premise that programs and services must be measured to ensure that well-intentioned services are really relevant to the needs of targeted populations and communities.

Ladd Colston, Ph.D. is our leading partner with expertise in community outreach and engagement, program development, and strategic planning and evaluation. He leads the company’s goal to target and match service delivery, with culturally competent approaches. He has over 30 years of experience as a college professor, administrator, program director, researcher and high school graduation coach. His most recent focus of expertise is in field-tested community program development, survey data analysis and program evaluation. He serves as a consultant for public and non-profit agencies and offers insight into urban-rural perspectives on addressing the health and educational needs of children and families.

Wanda Colston, Ph.D., CCC-SLP is a certified and licensed speech-language pathologist, interventionist and community-partner volunteer with experience in Higher Education Leadership. She leads efforts to partner within the community to build successful outcomes for children and families. Her areas of expertise include speech and language intervention, educational planning and program management. She has experiences as a speech-language pathologist, administrator, program evaluator. She provides services to the lead education agency in the county and works with faith-based organizations as they develop initiatives to improve student learning outcomes.

Micah Colston, B.S. is S-V’s research specialist with graduate certification in Terrorism Analysis. He has experience innovating in topic/population-specific data collection, cleaning, curation, and analysis. He has over seven years of experience in research design, data management, and process administration with both undergraduate and graduate-level education focused on psychology and terrorism analysis. His recent experience has been based primarily on the review of large-scale data systems in ensuring the integrity of research design and data validity. In addition, he has worked with several community-centered programs and organizations which aid in his understanding of effective approaches for community/target population interventions.

Kobi Colston, M.Ed. is the company’s innovator in mass media and communications. A highly-effective teacher in the urban school environment and master educator of mass media and communications proficient in Adobe Suite, he has over twenty years of experience in secondary and post-secondary education. He offers opportunities for students to create film, auditory, and visual life stories. These products assist his students, their peers, and their neighboring communities to convey messages that are used to better understand diverse cultural perspectives and the current priorities of youth.

Julian Lamar Weaver, B.A. is S-V’s website designer, developer and manager with cybersecurity system training certification. He has over 20 years of contractual experience with federal, state and local government entities utilizing his expertise and familiarity with website design, development and maintenance. He has served as a computer program instructor and has trained staff on various computer languages and diverse software applications pertinent to web-based system operations. As a graphic artist and Illustrator, he is also the creator of the Sustainable-Visions, LLC registered Business Logo prominently displayed on this website.

Andrew Mizrahi, M.S. is a data operations manager for S-V’s survey group with a Master’s Degree in Environmental Management. He has over a decade of research, survey design, and data management experience in the fields of environmental science, public health, and education. His research experience also extends to written reporting around research design and findings via his experience as a  co-author of several peer-reviewed research papers. Although much of his background knowledge is from large, national research studies, his work with S-V has helped expand his experience to include smaller, community-based projects. He believes that seeing the direct impact of his efforts in those local communities is the most rewarding aspect of his work with S-V.

What does our logo mean?

Our business logo was created by Mr. Julian Lamar Weaver of Washington, D.C. Brilliantly, he used an African Adinkra symbol called Nykinkyim as the tree trunk representing the twists and turns along the journey of life.  For the leaves on our tree of life, he created a visual interpretation of diverse views and cultural traits as collective visions that value a culturally diverse and inclusive community. This logo represents our commitment to assist organizations, programs and individuals to measure and maintain sustainable progress within underrepresented communities through education and health.